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What is BPM | Business Process Management Project Management Tools That Work BPM Process Modeling This section describes some of the terms and concepts of process mapping, modeling and analysis. At the end of the section you will find some free tools you can download to help you get started. Process Framework is a way to standardize the naming and numbering of your processes as well as a way to organize them in a hierarchy. It also expresses which processes are typically core to the value of the customer and which are supporting management processes. Example from APQC's Education Industry Process Framework Process Mapping - typically thought of as a static process flow diagram. diagram that shows the sequence of events and activities/tasks that occur in a process. Using visual aids to depict a process helps facilitate process understanding, not just because the end result is a picture, but because the process of noodling through process steps and decision points results in a much better understood process (by the analyst author) and is then much more readily communicated, from the OMG

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